it's a gamble boston needs to make using someone else's money. they desperately need jobs to combat poverty. it's 1994, and the cy has just enter a competition. but unlike this friendly street game, the stakes for boston are high, and the clock is ticking. cities across the country are vying for new federal grants for something called an "empowerment zone"-- a special area of the worst poverty. f spearhead boston's forts,. e yor enlisted geographer linda haar. with the community to establish our empowerment zone plan,k i sat back and started to think about boston from the perspective of a geographer, which is my training, and i've looked at boston along spatial lines. narrator: to help do that, haar's team uses a geographic iormation sysm map relative verty levelsfor . unfortunately, there are too many poor neighborhoods that qualify. there are many ways to draw the empowermt zone boundary that will decide who can and cannot receive the employment training, developmenmoneand jobs. busome of e choices stand out. haar: you can really define who liv